TRANSPARENCY : ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS REMAINS LIMITED.
Europe Environment, December, 2007
Access to public documents of the EU institutions is neither truly transparent nor effective, according to the European ombudsman and certain NGOs. The European Parliament is currently preparing an own-initiative report requesting a review of the existing legislation.
Nikiforos Diamandouros was invited to Brussels on 29 November by the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee. He is of the view that the Regulation (1049/2001) on public access to Parliament's, the Commission's and the Council's documents lacks both clarity and means. Indeed, around sixty complaints have been filed because of the shortcomings of the system. Many of them reveal that the threat of "undermining the decision-making process" foreseen in the regulation to justify a refusal is...
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